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I promise we’ll post something quirky to lighten the mood later, but I feel compelled (compelled I tell you) to mention that Detroit’s meltdown is finally getting the coverage it deserves. Detroit News’ columnist Daniel Howes– he of the jump down turnaround better days ahead– has just used the “b” word in his latest rant, finally admitting that “Big three need cash fast” (never mind a competitive small car or ten). The Detroit Free Press is also beginning to wake up and smell the ashes. While I’m pleased that the Motown print media is finally growing a pair, I am astonished that these two august institutions have failed to fully and persistently chronicle the human cost of The Big 2.8’s inexorable decline. Jim Dollinger (a.k.a. Buickman) tells me that Flint is even more like a ghost town these days, with business drying-up and blowing away. Where are the papers’ reports on the lives disrupted by Detroit’s downsizing? While we await these tales of woe from the sharp end– which will arrive in force the moment Chrysler files– we’d appreciate any local reports from our Best and Brightest. 

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